Defend the sacred
with a signature

   Initially it seemed  the Australian War Memorial would remain unavailable for a woke renovation, then-chief Brendan Nelson rejecting a proposal that the so-called ‘frontier wars’ be commemorated with a dedicated display. But then something happened to change his mind — we have no idea what — and last week Mr Nelson, no longer in charge but still on the board, did an about-face and endorsed the intrusion of race politics into a shrine to Australia’s fallen.

This was too much for author, Quadrant contributor and Vietnam veteran Peter O’Brien, who has launched a petition to stop what he describes as a sacrilege.

If you believe a shrine honouring the memory of those who gave their lives for this country should never be a stage on which activists and peddlers of twisted history strut their tawdry campaigns, then your signature belongs here.

-roger franklin